The dangerous liaison between iNKT cells and dendritic cells: does it prevent or promote autoimmune diseases?

abstract：:IL-6 is a paracrine and autocrine cytokine, which acts in the regulation of immunological and inflammatory processes. Its production can be observed in different cell types, as well as thyrocytes. The purpose of the study was to examine the serum IL-6 levels between the patients with Graves' disease (N = 47) and witho...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Molnár I,Balázs C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional and phenotypic characteristics of lymphocytes separated from myasthenic thymoma (Th-L) were compared with those of lymphocytes separated from non-thymomatous thymus associated with thymoma (NTh-L) of the same patients and NTh-L of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients without thymoma. We examined whether Th-L...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Takahashi K,Saito S,Monden Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Autoantibodies to tumor-associated antigens including survivin have been detected in sera from patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, little is known about autoantibody responses to tumor-associated antigens in patients with chronic hepatitis, which strongly predisposes to development of HCC....

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Yagihashi A,Asanuma K,Kobayashi D,Tsuji N,Torigoe T,Sato N,Watanabe N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible immunosuppressive action of antithyroid drugs in vivo has been assessed using Buffalo (Buf) strain rats with thyroiditis produced by neonatal thymectomy; this model shares many features with spontaneous thyroiditis in man. Both propylthiouracil and methimazole significantly reduced the severity of thyroid...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Cohen SB,Weetman AP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies against the beta-cell M(r) 64,000 protein (p64), recently identified as an isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), are prevalent in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Dog islets were found to represent an abundant source of native p64 allowing the study of antigen-antibody i...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bärmeier H,Ahlmén J,Landin-Olsson M,Rajotte RV,Sundkvist G,Warnock G,Lernmark A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages from autoimmune diabetes prone BB rats were found to produce radical oxygen intermediates (ROI) at an enhanced rate when compared to diabetes resistant BB or normal Wistar rats. The release of ROI was determined by chemiluminescence using in parallel luminol and lucigenin as detector molecules. In diabetes...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Brenner HH,Burkart V,Rothe H,Kolb H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyes and pineal glands from 10 monkeys immunized with S-antigen were studied using routine histopathological and immunohistochemical techniques. Seven out of 10 animals developed uveitis between 19 and 33 days after the initial immunization. Histopathology of the eyes harvested 70 days after immunization showed mo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Fujino Y,Li Q,Chung H,Hikita N,Nussenblatt RB,Gery I,Chan CC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades of research have provided strong evidence for a reciprocal relationship between the immune system and hormones of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis. Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), in particular, has been shown to have a variety of immune-regulating cytokine-like activities that can influence th...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Klein JR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agalactosyl IgG (Gal(0) is a glycoform lacking terminal galactose from the oligosaccharides situated on the Fc. The percentage of circulating IgG that is Gal(0) is increased in a a number of autoimmune diseases, and in certain chronic infections associated with autoantibody production. However it is not known whether ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pilkington C,Yeung E,Isenberg D,Lefvert AK,Rook GA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-adressin binding is a critical step in lymphocte attachment to target tissues. The mucosal recognition systems (alpha E beta 7, alpha 4 beta 7, MADcam-1) have been implicated in the autoimmune process in rheumatoid arthritis. We developed a model for in vivo study of radio-labelled lymphocyte circulation and ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Jorgensen C,Couret I,Canovas F,Bologna C,Brochier J,Reme T,Sany J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate changes in TSH receptor antibody after surgery in Graves' disease and its relationship with the degree of lymphocytic infiltration, serial serum levels of TSH receptor antibody were measured before and after the subtotal thyroidectomy in 50 patients with Graves' disease. In 22 (44%) out of 50 patients, thy...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Cho BY,Oh SK,Shong YK,Kim SE,Yoo HY,Lee HK,Koh CS,Min HK

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparently high frequency of Graves' disease encountered in New Orleans, Louisiana, prompted an investigation for a possible infectious agent that might be triggering the disease in genetically susceptible individuals. We studied 40 patients with Graves' disease, and compared them to the following groups of control...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Jaspan JB,Luo H,Ahmed B,Tenenbaum S,Voss T,Sander DM,Bollinger K,Baquet T,Garry RF

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridoma cell lines producing natural autoantibodies (NAA), generated from A.SW mice with progressive experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (P-EAE), have been shown to cause demyelination and renal pathology when injected into naive mice. To investigate the relative contribution of these antibodies to disease pat...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Peterson LK,Tsunoda I,Fujinami RS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenic B10.BR/SgSnJ H-2kTlaa mice were infected with a diabetogenic strain of coxsackievirus CB4 to correlate abnormalities of sugar metabolism with virus replication in islets, 64,000-M(r) (64K) islet autoantigen expression, 64K antibody development, and pancreas histopathology in early and late infection. Plaque a...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Gerling I,Chatterjee NK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five separate monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) to human thyroid peroxidase (hTPO) were raised by immunising Balb/c mice with hTPO purified from detergent solubilised thyroid microsomes by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The epitope specificities of these MoAbs were determined by assessing their ability to ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Ewins DL,Barnett PS,Tomlinson RW,McGregor AM,Banga JP

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic tissue expresses a very low level of MHC molecules, and these few appear only late in ontogeny. Possibly related are deficiencies in the expression of TAP molecules and also the fetus' need to avoid maternal immunologic rejection. However, the fetus may overcome the lack of Ag-presenting molecules when threa...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Lee MS,Sarvetnick N

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on recent advances and new hypothesis in the understanding of the T and dendritic cells contribution to the pathogenesis of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs), especially polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM). The new data show that non-specific amplification of muscle inflammation by T...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Chevrel G,Page G,Miossec P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a myocardial disease characterized by progressive depression of myocardial contractile function and by ventricular dilatation. Abnormalities of the cellular and humoral immune system are present in patients with myocarditis and DCM. Various circulating cardiac autoantibodies have been d...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Felix SB,Staudt A,Friedrich GB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-beta1 is a pleiotropic cytokine, which prevents inappropriate autoimmune responses and balances the requirements of proper immune cell levels during pathologic states that trigger the immune response. We assessed the serum levels of TGF-beta1 and determined the relationship between TGF-beta1 and clinical parameter...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mieliauskaite D,Venalis P,Dumalakiene I,Venalis A,Distler J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of autoimmune rheumatic diseases in several members of the same family, the concurrence of autoimmune rheumatic with non-rheumatic diseases in relatives of patients, the presence of autoantibodies in sera from healthy relatives of autoimmune-disease patients, the development of two or more autoimmune rheu...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Rodríguez-Reyna TS,Alarcón-Segovia D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flow cytometry-based phagocytosis assay was developed and utilized to measure the LE cell phenomenon at the single cell level in vitro. Since the lupus erythematosus (LE) cell phenomenon is a special form of necro-phagocytosis in the presence of anti-dsDNA antibodies, dead substrate cells or chicken erythrocytes nuc...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Böhm I

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T follicular helper (Tfh) cells are known to regulate humoral immune response. In this study we examined the correlation of different subsets of peripheral blood Tfh cells in patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN). METHODS:A total of 23 DN patients and 15 healthy controls (HC) were investigated for various...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zhang N,Tai J,Qu Z,Zhang Z,Zhao S,He J,Zhang S,Jiang Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) products were recently examined in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although encouraging results were obtained in pilot studies, later trials produced negative results. The rationale for these studies was that IVIG contains antibodies to amyloid-beta (Aβ). Howeve...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Loeffler DA,Klaver AC,Coffey MP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The myositis-specific autoantibodies that characterize certain forms of inflammatory myopathy are useful in diagnosing dermatomyositis (DM) / polymyositis and predicting its prognosis. Autoantibodies to small ubiquitin-like modifier activating enzyme (SAE) have been identified as a DM-marker antibody in Euro...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Muro Y,Sugiura K,Akiyama M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), celiac disease (CD) and autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) are autoimmune conditions relatively common in paediatric age and frequently occur in association in the same subject. This event is not by chance and requires an explanation. Here, we studied the distribution of HLA-DQ αβ hetero...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Larizza D,Calcaterra V,Klersy C,Badulli C,Caramagna C,Ricci A,Brambilla P,Salvaneschi L,Martinetti M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune profiling of non-obese diabetic (NOD) is a widely employed tool to assess the mechanisms of inflammatory insulitis. Our analysis of the female NOD colony revealed similar distribution of lymphoid lineages to wild type mice, and at various ages of prediabetic and diabetic mice. The profiles of mesenteric and pan...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kaminitz A,Mizrahi K,Askenasy N

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disorder of the peripheral nervous system. However, GBS patients frequently display a psychosyndrome, indicating an accompanying involvement of the central nervous system (CNS), although the cause is not understood. Hepatic encephalopathy is possibly the best characterize...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Görtzen A,Schlüter S,Veh RW

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid lymphocyte RNA from a Hashimoto patient exhibiting high titre serum IgG autoantibodies against thyroglobulin (Tg) has been used to construct a Fab library in phage lambda. Screening of this library with radioiodinated Tg has permitted the cloning of an anti-Tg antibody (MH52) with an affinity of 4.5 x 10(9) mo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Hexham JM,Furmaniak J,Pegg C,Burton DR,Smith BR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for methods to improve the diagnosis, patient staging and evaluation of therapeutic response in patients with autoimmune conditions to improve patient care. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two inflammatory diseases characterized by involvement of innate and adaptive i...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： McBride HJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid component P (SAP) are well-characterised ligands for dying and dead cells, while facets of their physiological function still need to be unravelled. We partially characterised CRP and SAP from different species with similar acute-phase systems. Human, rabbit and porcine...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mattecka S,Bock C,Vogt B,Yapici G,Schrödl W,Janko C,Schindler R,Sheriff A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00